Privacy is where we kill ourselves, and perhaps, others.
Privacy is where we hide. Privacy is where
The hypocrites dwell.
Privacy is where I think.
I’m thinking of rhyming privacy with hell.
You knew that, didn’t you?
Privately you think you know
A great deal about me,
Even in the snow,
When the outdoors becomes a room
From a sky overcast and sloppy
And snowy trees participate in a gloom
Which is not gloomy at all.
It unites us. We throw a snow ball.
It strikes you on the shoulder
Like a bird call.
The snowy landscape is a privacy for all.
Even Delmore will take hot chocolate with a smile
And be normal for a while.
Usually you need to be alone and read a lot of books
Because life has too much life.
Too many looks.
Remember when privacy was chased away
On that bright snowy day?
And you couldn’t help but love me?
When it was all snowy?
That’s how I know you know me.
I liked that part of the poem.
How I rhyme. The poem in my soul
You glimpse in my eyes from time to time.
I don’t see this at home in the mirror,
Staring at myself when I’m alone.
In my deepest privacy, I don’t know myself.
Strangely enough, privately is where I think I know you.
I take a long walk into yesterday’s mind,
And what it knows, privately, and a little unkind.